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Employees in Manitoba no longer need sick notes for short absences
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 1, 2026 8:40 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Employees in Manitoba no longer need to provide a sick note when missing work for a minor illness or injury. Under the new rules…
‘Trailer Park Boys’ actor Mike Smith has sexual assault charge dismissed
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith, known for playing Bubbles on the show, has had a sexual assault charge against him dismissed in a Nova Scotia court. A three-day trial was set to begin Thursday, after…
AI optimism is fueling tech stocks amid rising oil prices and bond yields
Strength for artificial-intelligence stocks is helping the U.S. market to hold firmer on Thursday, even as pressure from the bond market continues to rattle financial markets worldwide. The S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent and was on track to break a three-day…
Police seek answers in crash that killed 2 elders, hurt 2 others on BC First Nation
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 1, 2026 8:47 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Community members on the Tsawwassen First Nation lined the road, drummed and sang as the bodies of two elders were loaded into…
Minimum wage hikes set to begin across 5 provinces
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 1, 2026 8:34 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The minimum wage is going up in five provinces. The bumps of between 25 and 40 cents come in Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Nova…
West Coast pipeline deadline day: Carney, Smith to make announcement in Fort McMurray
It’s pipeline deadline day and Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith are set to make an announcement in the heartland of Alberta’s oil and gas industry. The Prime Minister’s Office said the two will reveal the next step to accelerate a “major…
Marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Fort Edmonton Park
Edmonton’s oldest historic site served as a place to remember the history of Canada’s Indigenous people on the sixth annual National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. The day is a sombre remembrance of 150,000 Indigenous children who suffered malnutrition and…
‘We come here for healing’: Saskatoon holds fifth annual truth and reconciliation powwow
Irene Nippi sees National Truth and Reconciliation Day as a way to show pride in a culture she was once told to abandon. The elder from Kinistin Saulteaux First Nation was six years old when she was first sent to a residential school, an experience that…
‘It was like a bomb’: Laval overpass collapse still haunts, 20 years later
Guy Archambault still has nightmares about the De la Concorde overpass collapse. Twenty years since the Laval, Que., overpass collapsed on Highway 19 on Sept. 30, 2006, Archambault can still picture what it was like as one of the first responders to arrive at…
Young Canadians less hopeful about future of democracy: Statistics Canada
A study released Tuesday suggests young Canadians are more likely to feel hopeless about the future of democracy in Canada than older residents. The Statistics Canada study found about a quarter of respondents aged 25 to 44 were “not at all hopeful” when…